[rspec-users] [cucumber] Cucumber and CI

[Phlip]

James Byrne wrote:

> Just on a side note,  how many features / stories have people seen on 
> their projects and how much of their project was covered by 
> features/stories?

My current day job is old-school Rails. Some of the tests - written before I got 
here - used a most despicable pattern. Someone would write a test on some 
transactions which pushed the DB into state X. Then, when they needed a database 
in state X to TDD the next transaction, they would call the old test.

This habit - across dozens of business rules - lead to tower-of-jello test 
cases, where any disturbance risks us commenting out the tests, because we can't 
figure out how to pass them - even by reverting and trying again!

So, in this degenerate case, we have saturation testing for all the low-level 
code methods, but we are missing the high-level view that Cuke ought to be 
providing...

-- 
   Phlip